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...Berlin House of Representatives dropped 25%. There were, of course, local issues, but no one doubted that the C.D.U. suffered from the tarnished image of Adenauer's national party, which has been slipping in local and state elections. Recent discontent focuses on the government's clumsy "treason" crackdown on the newsmagazine Der Spiegel last November, and more important, on the stubborn refusal of Adenauer to clear the way for his own retirement and choice of a new C.D.U. leader...
About a month ago, soon after Nikita Khrushchev touched off a general crackdown on modern art (TIME, Dec. 14), several hundred Soviet artists and writers were abruptly summoned to the modern, glass-walled reception palace at Lenin Hills, on the outskirts of Moscow. Khrushchev himself, it seemed, wanted to hear what poets and painters thought of the party line on avant-garde art. The argument raged for five hours, far into the night, and included several remarkably frank exchanges with the Soviet ruler...
This year's record inrush of students, ski bums and ski beats produced a rash of fights, breakage and stolen equipment that led some irate Aspenites to call for a police crackdown on all young people. But the Aspen Times editorialized in favor of moderation: "Not having money is no crime, and the fact that some skiers may be temporarily out of work should not give the police the right to harass them." Bars and restaurants try to maintain a close surveillance of identity cards to avoid selling liquor to those under 21, or beer to those under...
...jets permits businessmen to fly into a city in the morning and home again at night; this has cut the average stay in the nation's convention hotels from 4 days to 2½. And most hotelmen are convinced that Federal Tax Chief Mortimer Caplin's crackdown on expense accounts will cut the average hotel bill still more. "If the IRS rules remain as stringent as they are now, it'll murder us roomwise," worries Manager Ed Crowley of Los Angeles' Sheraton-West. "Guests who usually bring their wives or stay an extra...
University police are about to begin a crackdown on Faculty members and employees who park their cars illegally on University grounds. At the same time penalties for student violators have been lightened...